The single chirality of biological molecules in terrestrial biology raises more questions than
certitudes about its origin. The emergence of biological homochirality (BH) and its …

Prebiotic chemistry aims to explain how the biochemistry of life as we know it came to be.
Most efforts in this area have focused on provisioning compounds of importance to life by …

In this work, we have developed a Ru single-atom substituted polyoxometalate-based ionic
liquid ([TOMA6SiW11O39Ru (dmso)], TOMA= methyltrioctylammonium, named as Ru-POM …

The Strecker reaction of aldehydes is the pre-eminent pathway to explain the prebiotic
origins of α-amino acids. However, biology employs transamination of α-ketoacids to …

The rising shortage of water resources and the need to provide water in many regions like
Morocco around the world has been crucial and will become increasingly alarming in the …

Solar radiation is the principal source of energy available to Earth and has unmatched
potential for the synthesis of organic material from primordial molecular building blocks. As …

The origin of life on Earth would benefit from a prebiotic atmosphere that produced nitriles,
like HCN, which enable ribonucleotide synthesis. However, geochemical evidence suggests …

Metabolic theories for the origin of life posit that inorganic catalysts enabled self‐organized
chemical precursors to the pathways of metabolism, including those that make genetic …

The origin of nucleotides is a major question in origins-of-life research. Given the central
importance of RNA in biology and the influential RNA World hypothesis, a great deal of this …

The field of prebiotic chemistry has been dedicated over decades to finding abiotic routes
towards the molecular components of life. There is nowadays a handful of prebiotically …